Imprint
- Tinder Press
- Tinder Press
- Tinder Press
Afghanistan, Pakistan, North America, USA, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), History: specific events & topics
-
Imprint
Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781472276896 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276865 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276858 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
Imprint
Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781472276896 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276865 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276858 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00 -
Imprint
Tinder Press
- Paperback Jul 13, 2021 | 9781472276896 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276865 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 8, 2020 | 9781472276858 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
Play Sample0:00
An American son and his immigrant father search for belonging - in post-Trump America, and in their relationship with each other
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR
'I read it in a fever, swept up in the kind of rapture you fall into when your most audacious friend kicks off on a hilarious, outrageous, but deeply sincere rant' Torrey Peters, Guardian Books of the Summer
'A beautiful novel about an American son and his immigrant father that has echoes of THE GREAT GATSBY' New York Times
A deeply personal novel of identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, HOMELAND ELEGIES blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of belonging and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part satire, part picaresque, at its heart it is the story of a father and son, and the country they call home.
Ranging from the heartland towns of America to palatial suites in Europe to guerrilla lookouts in the mountains of Afghanistan, Akhtar forges a narrative voice that is original as it is exuberantly entertaining. This is a world in which debt has ruined countless lives and the gods of finance rule, where immigrants live in fear and the unhealed wounds of 9/11 continue to wreak havoc. HOMELAND ELEGIES is a novel written in love and anger, which spares no one, least of all the author himself.
More books by Ayad Akhtar
Praise for Homeland Elegies
-
A triumph. Akhtar rages, he sings, he indicts, he falls in love, he sorrows, he dreams, he mourns, he transcribes! And finally he transmutes injustice into the finest art
-
Exuberant, insightful, and wickedly entertaining... a deeply moving father and son story that anyone wanting to know how we as a nation got where we are today - and into what dark wood we might be heading tomorrow - should read
-
Astonishing... absolutely brilliant
-
At the core of this flashing, kinetic coil of stories - part One Thousand and One Nights, part reality TV - is a passionate, wrenching portrayal of Americans exiled into 'otherness' by a post-9/11 World
Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar is a screenwriter, playwright, actor, and novelist. He is the author of a novel, American Dervish, and was nominated for a 2006 Independent Spirit Award for best screenplay for the film The War Within. His plays include Disgraced, produced at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2012 and on Broadway in 2014 and recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and The Who & The What, produced at Lincoln Center Theater in 2014. He lives in New York City.
Find a book you’ll love, get our Word Up newsletter
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
.png?auto=compress&w=150&h=60&fit=crop&fm=jpg)
Hachette Australia acknowledges and pays our respects to the past, present and future Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Our head office is located on the lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
